St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-15


gerOuS and SO Improbable as injustice; !;
Great Britain should not forget
that seven millions of people
determined to be free can never be en-
Slaved, Great Britain should not forget
that three millions of citizens in the Or
iginal thirteen colonies revOlted and
achieved their independence under far
less prOyocatiOn than the seven million
of Irish people have eLdured for cen
turies. [Applause.] He did not desire
to trench upon the prOprietieS of the
occasion on to intrude upon the comfy
of nations, but he should not forget that
brutal and degraded British sOldiery
within the memory OF men who might
now be within the hearing of his voice
had sacked and burned this capital.
He could not forget that in every great
crisis in American history we have
had to contend with the i'll
will and malevolence of the governing
classes of Great Britain; that in that
last great struggle for the preservation
of constitutional liberty upon this con-
tinent we had the ill-will of the govern
ing classes of Great Britain; that she
consorted with the South and equivO-
Gated with the North, and contributed
everything short of actual hostility to
secure the downfall of the American
union. In conclusion, he said: Il shall
never cease to remember that during
that awful period there was not battle
field for American liberty which was
not illustrated by Irish valOr and conse-
Grated by Irish blood" He then intro
duced Sir Arthur O'COnnOr to the audi
ence, who was received with cheers. In
viewing the large aSSemblage before
him, he said he was sensible of the
GREATNESS AND SACREDNESS
of the cause which lie had the honor to
represent. Here i'll Washington, the
headquarters of freedom-the capital of
the grandest and freeSt community the
world had ever Seen-nO cause which
was not just aid grand and noble could
call forth such a distinguished audi
ence. While the cause of Ireland was
one which enlisted the sympathy of
every iiberty-lOving heart, which en-
jOyed the attention of all civilized man
kind, it was in a special manner calcu-
lated to draw the attention of many of
the illuStriOuS statesmen who hon
Ored his colleague and himself, and hon
Ored Ireland by their presence here to-
night. Applause. Ireland was at
tempting by force of organized public
opinion, by constitutional and peaceful
means to secure the repeal, not of law,
but of conquest. 1t was attempting to
repeal the conquest of Ireland. APP
plause. He was followed by Senator
Hawley, who said the speech of Mr..
O'COnnOr was a statement of terrible
fact. terrible argument. Humanity
everywhere would say that he had stated
wrongs which must be remedied. He
joined very gladly in the welcome to
these distinguished Representatives of
the great Liberal party of the British
Nirn
There was no real American looking at
the great breadth, strength and final
purpose of that party who could with
hold his hearty admiration and love.
He predicted local self-gOvernment in
Ireland, and that it would be followed
by local Self-gOvernment in Scotland,
Wales and perhaps subdivisions of Eng
land, until we had United States of
Great Britain. Resolutions were unani-
nlouSly adopted
EXTENDING HEARTY GREETING
to Messrs. ESmGnde and O'COnnOr; sol
eIanly protesting in the name of human
its against the Tory policy toward Ire
land as being subversive of liberty, of
right, of justice, of the freedom of
speech and the freedom of the press,
and declaring that the people of Ireland
may well arraign their oppresSOrs before
Thomas jefferson: you have de-
stroyed the lives of our people with cir
cumstanceS as cruel and perfidy scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarouS ages,
and totally unworthy civilized nation.
You have quartered large bodies
of troops among us. You
hove deprived US of the ben
efts of trial by jury. You have
excited domestic insurrectiOn among us,
and deprived us of rights formidable to
tyrants only" expressing admiration
for and confidence in Parnell and the
Irish parliamentary party; thanking
Mr.. Gladstone in behalf of the Ameri-
can people for his course toward Ire
land; pledging financial aid to the Irish
people; sympathizing also with the
English people, who can never have
good government while Ireland has bad
government, and because the action of
the Liberal party has drawn Great
Britain and the United States nearer
together. Telegrams and letters of
sympathy with the Irish cause
from Senators Manderson, Kenna,
Blackburn and others we're read. Mr..
EsmOnde spoke of the encouragement
which this meeting would lend to the
Irish cause. Representative Herbert,
of Alabama, expressed his sympathy
with Ireland. Representative Springer
said he thought we had hundred years
ago served sufficient notice upon Great
Britain as to our own sentiments on
nome rule, but some of her statesmen
had not apparently read that part of
Great Britain history. Representative
Kennedy. of Ohio. testified to his
hearty sympathy with the cause of Ire
land